About ssct . . .

ssct is a humble little application, designed for use
at a commandline on a unix box, that takes a single
word as a parameter, and attempts to spellcheck it,
and then translate the results into (or from) english.

There are three files available here for download. First,
a debian package (for use with slink or potato). Second,
a source tarball, for anyone who wants to roll their own.
And third, a binary package (tarball), for people who are
afraid of distributions and c-compilers.

This package relies upon the ISpell package, as well as
a set of files maintained by Tyler Chambers, as part of the
Internet Dictionary Project (IDP). Details on the IDP are
available from   http://www.june29.com/IDP/

Installing the software . . .

-   First tao   -   A Debian Package   -

As far as I know, this package should work on slink and
potato distributions only. If you're running hamm or bo, you
will need to download the source and roll your own copy.

Download the file : ssct_1.0.0-1_i386.deb   and then run :

# dpkg -i ssct_1.0.0-1_i386.deb

You need to be logged in as root to do this, of course. Once
done, login as your normal user, and test the functionality by
running 'ssct hola'. Run 'ssct' by itself to see the instructions.

-   Second tao   -   A Source Package   -

Download the file : ssct-1.0.src.tgz

copy the file to /usr/src (or equivalant on your system),
cd to the same place, and then run the command :

$ tar xvfz ssct-1.0.src.tgz

Then edit the Makefile to suit your requirements, in
particular the paths to the IDP files, and also edit the
ssct.conf file (which will be copied into /etc) to reflect
changes to those paths. Then you can run a 'make',
and finally a 'make install'.

-   Third tao   -   A Binary Package   -

Download the file : ssct-1.0.bin.tgz

Either copy the file to somewhere safe and extract it
and then shuffle the files into where you want them, or
cd to /, and then extract the tarball at that point. After
doing that, the utility should be useable, but there are no
guarantees. This is why the binary package is the third tao.

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